Re: Merging several taxonomy indexes for faceted search

2011-10-24 Thread Shai Erera
I think that by mistake, the examples were not packaged with Lucene 3.4.0. I fixed it in the current 3x branch, so hopefully they will be available with 3.5.0, when it's out. Shai On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Christoph Kaser wrote: > Hi Shai, > > thank you very much for pointing me to the T

Re: Merging several taxonomy indexes for faceted search

2011-10-24 Thread Christoph Kaser
Hi Shai, thank you very much for pointing me to the TaxonymMergeUtils-class, it does exactly what I need. I had only included the maven artifact for facet support and therefore did not see the (very helpful) examples package before. Best regards, Christoph Am 19.10.2011 21:02, schrieb Shai

Re: Merging several taxonomy indexes for faceted search

2011-10-19 Thread Shai Erera
Hi Christoph, You can certainly do that, and there are a bunch of APIs that will help you do that. We have a very high-level utility called TaxonomyMergeUtils, which offers a bunch of merge() methods, each taking more parameters. Perhaps start with the simplest one (the one taking 4 directories) a

Merging several taxonomy indexes for faceted search

2011-10-19 Thread Christoph Kaser
Hi all, I am planing to change my existing lucene index to use the new facets introduced in lucene 3.4.0. Unfortunately, I could not find an answer to my question in the documentation: I create a relatively large index of 8 million books by dividing it into several smaller groups of docume

Merging several taxonomy indexes for faceted search

2011-10-19 Thread Christoph Kaser
Hi all, I am planing to change my existing lucene index to use the new facets introduced in lucene 3.4.0. Unfortunately, I could not find an answer to my question in the documentation: I create a relatively large index of 8 million books by dividing it into several smaller groups of docume